Landscape with Two Poplars

Wassily Kandinsky

1912 · Oil on canvas · The Art Institute of Chicago

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About this work

Artist: Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)
Year: 1912
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 78.8 × 100.4 cm
Collection: The Art Institute of Chicago
Movement: Expressionism

Two tall, dark poplars rise at the left of a hillside village, with a church spire beyond them and fields laid out in broad slabs of green, crimson, ochre and blue; a pale path runs diagonally through the foreground, and houses are reduced to a few strokes. The trees and buildings are still there, but colour has taken over from description. Kandinsky painted it in 1912, at the height of his Blue Rider years, when he was moving between such landscapes and his first fully abstract canvases, and it turns the Bavarian countryside he knew into blocks of colour. The Chicago collector Arthur Jerome Eddy bought it from the artist in 1913, the year Kandinsky's work was shown in the Armory Show in New York and Chicago, and it came to the Art Institute of Chicago with the Eddy memorial gift in 1931.

This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.

Where it works

Dark poplars and a church spire above fields of crimson, green, ochre and blue, for a living room, dining room or hallway at 24×36 in natural wood. A sage, cream or warm grey wall; it pairs with Murnau, Landscape with Tower.

Style, size & framing detail

Style: Exhibition poster of a Expressionism painting
Era: 20th century (1912)
Orientation: Portrait
Palette: cream & beige
Mood: calm
Rooms: living room, dining room, hallway or entryway, dorm room
Good gift for: housewarming, art lovers

Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.

Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.

Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; every size also available framed • Framed option: wood frame in black or natural wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Printed after you order at the facility nearest you, then shipped. Standard delivery is free and takes 4–9 business days from order to door in the US, UK and EU (up to 10 elsewhere); Express takes 4–6 business days. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is Landscape with Two Poplars in the public domain?

Yes. Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by The Art Institute of Chicago.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; every size is also offered framed in black or natural wood, with plexiglass and no mat. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was Landscape with Two Poplars painted, and in what medium?

Landscape with Two Poplars dates from 1912 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 78.8 × 100.4 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

Across a three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 is the size that reads as one statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pair. For Landscape with Two Poplars we'd choose 24×36.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Wassily Kandinsky's Landscape with Two Poplars — two dark poplars, red houses and a winding yellow road beneath a cloudy sky — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. Kandinsky: Colour and Abstraction, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Every size is offered unframed or framed in black or natural wood. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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